Archive for January, 2006
Google Earth: Suspected Earth Impact Sites (KML)
Posted on Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
NOTICE: The KML has been updated.
A while ago I found the Impact Field Studies Group:
… The overall intent in forming IFSG is to bring together widely-separated researchers doing work at a variety of impact crater locations to share the observations and field experience for the common good of the impact community.
What’s most interesting about [...]
Posted in Development, General, Google Earth, ThinkLemon | 17 Comments »
MediaWiki & Google Sitemaps update
Posted on Saturday, January 28th, 2006
Just to let you know. I’ve done an update on the MediaWiki:Google Sitemaps script. So if you’re running a MediaWiki installation take a look at the script.
Posted in Development, General, Google, Search, Utilities | No Comments »
Olympic Imagery 2006
Posted on Friday, January 27th, 2006
The Winter Olympics 2006 in Turin are going to break loose some time next week. In case you didn’t know. In any case I just found out about the new ‘identity’ of The Games. Poynter Online is running a small story about the visual identity: Knowing Your Audience: Lessons from Olympic Imagery
Where the story is [...]
Posted in General, Webdesign | No Comments »
Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics
Posted on Friday, January 27th, 2006
Over at Google Code they ran a survey, in December 2005, looking at a couple of webpages trying to find out which elements and their respective attributes are used most. And more importantly how they are used.
We took a sample of slightly over a billion documents, and looked at what elements were used on the [...]
Posted in Browsers, Development, General, Google, Internet, WebDev, Webdesign | No Comments »
Which Browsers matter in 2006?
Posted on Thursday, January 26th, 2006
If you are planning to build or rebuild a site this year you may wonder at some point which browsers you should support. If not, you should! Just looking at your new design in IE 6 is no guarantee it works and behaves the same in any other browser.
Not that long ago the browser shortlist [...]
Posted in Apple, Browsers, Design, Development, Firefox, General, Internet Explorer, Opera, WebDev, Webdesign | No Comments »
RE: Adobe looking for a Gecko expert
Posted on Friday, January 20th, 2006
That is what the below job offering says. But I’m not quite sure what it is they’re building. Remember the Adobe & Macromedia merger? So it’s quite obvious that the the product lines of both will be merged. Meaning Flash and PDF …
Posted in Browsers, Development, Firefox, General, Utilities | No Comments »
WordPress 2.0 Cache Is Broken!
Posted on Sunday, January 15th, 2006
As of version 2.0 of WordPress you’ll get a caching feature, which means it’ll ‘remember’ the most frequent accessed static information from your blog. This way it’s supposed to not bother the database but make a ‘fast trip’ to the server to fetch these pieces of info. In the end this should make your [...]
Posted in General, Internet, Intranet, ThinkLemon, Utilities, WebDev | 12 Comments »
Google Earth for Mac, download now
Posted on Wednesday, January 11th, 2006
It’s official! Google Earth for the Mac is here. While Google Earth for the PC was stripped off its beta status, they’ve also released the Mac version. You’ll need OS X 10.4 and up (see the requirements).
Get Google Earth for Mac (or PC)
Read the official anouncement and Stefan from Ogle Earth already has a review [...]
Posted in General, Google, Google Earth, Internet, News | 2 Comments »
Is WordPress 2.0 that sluggish?
Posted on Tuesday, January 10th, 2006
Directly after upgrading this weblog, little over a week ago, I felt it was a little bit sluggish. Compared to the 1.5 version I was running before. Maybe it could be just the webserver as I’m running on a shared hosting solution. Therefore one of the neighbours could be having a party… again.
But [...]
Posted in Development, General, Internet, ThinkLemon, Utilities, WebDev | 3 Comments »
Learning 101 – IKEA style
Posted on Thursday, January 5th, 2006
Don’t ask me how I got subscribed to Will’s Weblogg-ed. But reading today’s post on ‘Learning 101‘ leaves me with an ‘IKEA‘-feel to it. Especially:
Use visuals!
Use the filmaker (and novelist) principle of SHOW-don’t-TELL.
Use “chunking” to reduce cognitive overhead.
Don’t rob the learner of the opportunity to think!
Context matters.
…
To name a few. This makes you wonder why [...]
Posted in Design, General, ThinkLemon, Utilities | No Comments »